Period 8: 1945-1980

The coining of the term iron curtain is attributed to which leader?

• Harry Truman

• George Marshall

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Winston Churchill

• Douglas MacArthur

George F. Kennan most strongly supported which policy?

• Containment

• Massive retaliation

• Mutually assured destruction

• Bans on nuclear testing

• The creation of NATO

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were similar in that they

• provided justification for military actions against authoritarian governments

• provided economic aid while containing Soviet influence

• returned the United States to its prewar isolationist policies

• focused on expanding American business interests in Latin America

• were used as the basis for creating the United Nations

What was the Berlin Airlift?

• The massive evacuations of diplomats following the Soviet takeover of West Berlin

• The aerial arrival of Soviet forces to capture the capital of Germany

• The delivery of goods and necessities after a Soviet blockade of West Berlin

• The evacuation of West German citizens following the construction of the Berlin Wall

• The delivery of Soviet propaganda to West Berlin in an attempt to fuel a revolution

The formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact were similar in that they

• focused on economic security and development

• called for collective security against outside threats

• were used as an attempt to alleviate Cold War tensions

• illustrated international opposition to the United Nations

• eff ectively isolated Asia from the Western world

The communist revolution in China was led by

• Jiang Jieshi

• Kim Il Sung

• Ho Chi Minh

• Deng Xiaoping

• Mao Zedong

The major function of HUAC was to

• provide education funding for veterans

• stop domestic infiltration of communism

• contain the spread of communism in Europe

• demobilize the American economy from wartime production

• investigate the actions taken by Joseph McCarthy

The Crucible by Arthur Miller was an analogy of the Salem Witch Trials of New England and

• the events of the Holocaust

• racism in the southern states

• the acts of Joseph McCarthy’s Senate committee

• the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany

• the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for

• refusing to denounce the Communist Party

• giving nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union

• serving as German spies during the Second World War

• giving nuclear weapons secrets to China

• attempting to assassinate President Eisenhower

During the decade following the Second World War, the U.S. national economy

• more than doubled

• fell back into depression

• suffered from a decade-long recession

• remained mostly unchanged

• relied mostly on European loans